RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Claudio Monteverdi was one of music’s greatest composers. He was his own symphony, and magnum opus. A martinet classicist, Monteverdi, quite simply, never ever compromised on what he thought was exact — be it a note, or a theme. He is fondly remembered, today, as the primal composer of L’Orfeo, albeit his most famous composition […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR It’s over five+ decades ago that the one and only John Wayne accepted the role of Major John Reisman in The Dirty Dozen [1967], a spectacular, runaway blockbuster. He asked Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] for certain script changes, albeit he pulled out of the project to make The Green Berets [1968]. He was replaced by Lee […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Audrey Hepburn’s philosophy of life was direct: never in flight before contemporary difficulties. Her vision was straight and simple — that of a humble utopia that began and percolated in her psyche, for a noble cause: the children of our world. If gentle nature and great courage rarely manifest in one individual, she […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Integrating complementary and alternative medicine [CAM] with conventional medicine, which is termed integrative medicine, aims to combine the benefits of the two approaches to create a more holistic and effective healthcare system. This approach recognises that conventional medicine [viz., medications and surgery] and CAM therapies [viz., acupuncture, Ayurveda, homeopathy and herbal remedies] can work together, […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR It’s a given that anyone who has been ‘initiated’ into the etymologies of science would know that the universe, at the beginning of time, was a blaze of radiation, too hot for any atoms to survive. In the first few moments, thereafter, it cooled down somewhat for the nuclei of the lightest elements […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Mindful awareness is the most persuasive therapeutic entity that exists within each of us. It supplements and propels every function and process of our body. It jazzes-up our normal healing processes with a gush of healing energy that directly influences every bit of illness. It works in tandem with medical treatment. This leads […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR When Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth got together and published Lyrical Ballads, with A Few Other Poems, in an edition of 500 copies, over 225 years ago, the whole idea was exciting, all right. But, it wasn’t a tizzy, or an earth-shattering event, really. Rather, it was a humble beginning. Yet, beneath […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR David Lean’s magnum opus, The Bridge on the River Kwai [TBRK], made nearly 70 years ago, wasn’t just a movie; it’s an epic. Its award-winning cinematography, not to speak of a host of other breath-taking elements, so vital to making classy movies, was a landmark — a sentimental journey beyond the realms of […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Our brain is the seat of intellect. It regulates and maintains balance and stability in a zillion bodily processes and systems. To pick a few examples — the rhythmic beating of your heart, blood pressure, transfer of oxygen into the blood stream, the extension and contraction of your lungs and regulation of innumerable […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Individuality, as the dictionary puts it, is the quality, or character, of a particular person, or thing, that distinguishes them from others of the same kind. The fact also is — being an individual means being uniquely you, one that includes your unique qualities, values, beliefs, also idiosyncrasies, and articulating them self-assuredly and […]